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KING LEAR: A DECLARATION OF SINCERE LOVE

April 29, 2016 Žiga Predan

With the king absent, the audience becomes a sovereign in this peculiar feminist take on the Shakespeare classic text. Premiered at Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, King Lear by Jurišić and Rusjan is as contemporary as it is archetypal. 

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In Dance, Productions Tags Leja Jurišić, Jelena Rusjan, 2014
 
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